Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Hollow Gesture Replaces Real Action

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Do you ever wonder what the Office of the Children's Commissioner - with an annual budget of $11.5 million and 36 full time staff (83 ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Boosting birth rates with benefit payments is a very bad idea

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Last week the UK government gave in to the growing pressure from activists to scrap their two child cap on welfare benefits - this despite...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Officials warn: "...some young people may be incentivised to have children to keep access to income support."

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This morning NewstalkZB reported officials warning, in a Regulatory Impact Statement about the government's policy to block teenagers ac...
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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Latest benefit data: Three observations

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The latest monthly benefit data was released yesterday. Here are three observations. There are more Cook Islanders on benefits in New Zeala...
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Monday, October 27, 2025

Same-old, same-old

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The Social Investment Agency is a creation of the National government. It kicked off in July 2024 and is headed by the former police commiss...
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Friday, October 24, 2025

What an effective welfare system might look like

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For three decades following the 1938 introduction of most social security benefits (including Invalid, Sickness and Unemployment), ...
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Monday, October 20, 2025

National's problem epitomised

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Why did National pick two former welfare-dependent sole mothers to be Ministers of Social Development? Because National is woke. They...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Who Moves from Welfare to Super?

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The National government is presiding over significant growth in benefit dependency, in both numbers and the length of duration people remain...